"For truth is precious and divine, too rich……" — Samuel Butler
"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become…
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman,…
— Richard Sibbes
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Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.
— Yi-Fu Tuan
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Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a…
— Richard Baxter
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I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it…
— Sam Kinison
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God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need…
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The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too…
— John Flavel
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It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark…
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Many girls want to be carnal with me because I'm such a premium dancer.
— Eugene Hutz
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The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within,…
— H. L. Mencken
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The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the…
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